Thursday, October 23, 2014

In
2010, my friend Melissa opened The Clipper Ship Tea Company, a tea shop
in our hometown of Northport, New York. Soon thereafter, we
serendipitously started a collaboration of artwork and tea with the Teatime with Animals
series. Each illustration I create will feature one animal famously
indigenous to a tea growing country, and Melissa will blend a tea to
pair with my image, based on the country and the colors/vibe of my art.
Below are the first 3 (0f 8) Elephant's Teacup, Tiger's Chai and Snow
Monkey Tea. More to come!

ELEPHANT'S
TEACUP. A brisk Ceylon Black Tea blended with Sri Lankan cinnamon and
tropical island fruits. A finely balanced tea is a perfect harmony of
sweet and spiced. This tea pays homage to the peaceful and tranquil
beauty of Sri Lanka.

SNOW
MONKEY. A Delicate Japanese sencha green tea blended with soothing
lavender, warm vanilla and sweet blueberries. An aromatic tea that's a
spa in a cup. An ethereal tea blended in honor of Japanese hot springs
and the whimsical world of snow monkeys.

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We are creating custom packaging so they can be sold in tins individually and in a gift box with all 8 tins packaged together.

For more information about project, The Clipper Ship Tea Company and the teas, check out my site HERE

Thursday, July 31, 2014

In
John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live, actor/wrestler Roddy Piper plays a
character called Nada, a homeless migrant worker in a
right-around-the-bend America where shit really sucks. He stumbles upon a
special pair of sunglasses a local church/rebellion HQ that, while
wearing, turns the world back and white and allows him to see that
ordinary looking people are in fact, skeleton-faced, alien invaders!
Subliminal messages in bold arial fonts are also revealed on billboards
and magazines, citing such messages as OBEY, WATCH TV, CONSUME and
SLEEP. It's a fun movie, classic 80s Carpenter, that has achieve cult
status over the years, in part for the premise, and two scenes in
particular - the bubblegum shotgun scene and the Alley Fight.

Nada
wants Frank, a construction worker he kinda knows, to put them on, and
see what he sees but Frank wants no part of it, Just wants to go about
his life. Hence, FIGHT! It's a brutal, 6:20 minute long, battle of wills
between two towering man, one attempting to make the other "see" the
truth, one wanting to be left alone. Spoiler alert: Nada wins!

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Gandalf
is a badass, plain and simple. This piece was created for "McKellen Me
Softly" a one night only art show last month in NYC in tribute to geek
icon and queer hero Sir Ian McKellen, to benefit Geeks OUT, a nonprofit
organization out to rally and represent the growing community of geeks
who are queer. Check out this link for more info http://mckellenmesoftly.com/

Available as a 11x14" giclee print, signed and numbered edition of 30.

I
had a lot of fun creating this image and a breakthrough of sorts. After
years of primarily using only digital for the final result, I went back
to my roots and created Gandalf and all of the linework in traditional
pencil. I think the result is more intimate and gritty, and exciting for
me as an artist, hopefully you as a viewer as well. You can really get
up in there! The background is digitally colored with traditional
watercolors accents. Will keep experimenting this way, feel like it has
lots of potential, and ultimately makes my work for "me".

Monday, April 21, 2014

I recently teamed up with Futbol Artist Network's Creative Director (& illustrator extraordinaire!) Daniel Nyari to produce artwork for the television show, MLS Insider. Produced by Emmy Award-winner Jonathan Hock, the ground-breaking series moves to a new outlet -- KICKTV
-- and continues to take fans behind the scenes of the MLS world
returning with a second season of in-depth features, personal profiles,
and culturally relevant videos. FAN will use a series of artists to
produce a new art piece to correspond with each week's new show.

This week's theme was Destroy & Create featuring Team USA's
dynamic duo Michael Bradley of Toronto FC & Real Salt Lake's Kyle
Beckerman. Hats off to Daniel for coming up with the perfect concept,
the playing card, highlighting the fact that they compliment each other
very well in both the destroy & create roles while sharing the
midfield. Their intelligent play makes the two central midfielders
strong candidates to represent the U.S. Men's National Team in Brazil
this summer. MLS Insider provides a deep dive into the athleticism,
acumen and artistry that each brings to the field.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

When I was first asked to create a print for the Generation Geek gallery show in Bourges, France for Geek-Art,
I was surprisingly stumped. Not because I couldn't think of what to
do, but because there were too many options. The theme was Geek History
from the past to the present, a pretty open topic, so... where to
start?! My initial thought was to involve Godzilla. Then I decided to
draw just a few more of my favorite characters from science fiction and
fantasy from the last century; from books, comic books, cartoons,
movies, video games etc. - the ones that inspired and wowed me from
childhood to today.

You know, just a few.

Then it got personal. What
happened next was this, a print depicting my own geek history, my ODE to
GEEK. Limited edition print, size ranges from approx 16x24" (40x60cm)
to 28x40" (70x100cm), available only through Geek-Art.